SELFy VIP: Beth Riesgraf

Cable TV is a hotbed of great shows right now, and topping them is TNT's Leverage, about a team of con-artists who steal from criminals and corrupt businessmen. Star Beth Riesgraf stopped by to entertain us.

The actress showed up in a APC rabbit fur coat, a faded men’s denim button down from the Gap, a floral Topshop dress and vintage black leather boots–a perfect testament to Northwestern style. She lives and films in Portland for six months of the year, then heads back to LA for her time off. The only thing she brings back and forth with her? Her art collection. “It’s how I decompress, being surrounded by this beautiful aesthetic,” she told us.

When she’s not decompressing, she’s doing her own stunts on set–like the time she had to hang upside down from a window on the forty-fourth floor of a building (on her first day of shooting!). “It was a 17 hour day, it was four in the morning and I was harnessed in to this rig,” she explained. “It was terrifying.”

To keep up with her team of high-tech crooks, she trains regularly (she even practices hanging upside down!). Riesgraf runs (often alongside her six year old son, a budding BMX rider), does Pilates Plus (a mix of sculpting and pilates on a modifed reformer) and Barre 3–a combination of ballet, pilates and yoga–three times a week. Whew!

Check her out in the clips from Leverage above. Are you tuning in? What do you think of TNT’s hit show?